Samoa gearing up for match day 2

Despite losing in their first friendly match against Fiji, Team Samoa continue to be optimistic and are working hard to amend their mistakes from their first match to improve in today’s match.

The national training squad departed Samoa on Sunday night for Suva to prepare for the upcoming Women’s Nations Cup. Although team Samoa has only assembled for a week, their coach is happy to see the team together for week.

“It’s been really good so far, we’ve got 17 girls here all learning how to work together for the first time. The game against Fiji on Monday was a chance to measure ourselves against another Pacific nation. We have done some good work on and off the training field so today is about seeing if we can put those things in to practice against Fiji, says Nicola Demaine.

The week-long camp brings together local and international players and a final squad is set to be announced on Friday to represent Samoa in the Nations Cup next month.

About FFS

Football Federation Samoa (FFS) was founded in 1968. The federation has been through a challenging period in recent years with FIFA setting up a normalisation committee in 2008. A spell of inactivity followed for the next two years as the sport was rebuilt in Samoa but the normalisation period ended at the beginning of 2011 with the election to president of Toetu Petana. Reverend Laupama Solomona is the current President and he is supported in his role by CEO Faumuina Michael Kapisi.